The year 2021 was strange, you can read more of it from A 2021 technology retrospective: Strange days indeed. But how strange will 2022 be? Here are some predictions for year 2022:
2022 preview: Will the global computer chip shortage ever end?
The growing demand for computer chips, used in everything from cars to fridges, has collided with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, leading to a global shortage that is likely to continue through 2022
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2022-2022-preview-will-the-global-computer-chip-shortage-ever-end/#ixzz7GqrP1H9A
Industry Transforming In Ways Previously Unimaginable
https://semiengineering.com/industry-transforming-in-ways-previously-unimaginable/?cmid=3dedf05d-0284-497a-b015-daf7747872e6
As we look back over 2021, there have certainly been some surprises, but the industry continues to take everything in its stride.
2022 tech themes: A look ahead
https://www.edn.com/2022-tech-themes-a-look-ahead/
The continued COVID-19 question mark: The world quickly and dramatically changed. It hasn’t yet reverted to pre-pandemic characteristics, and it very likely never will. Sad but true, the pandemic isn’t even close to being over yet.
Deep learning’s Cambrian moment: Look at today’s participant-rich deep learning silicon and software market, spanning both training and inference.
The ongoing importance of architecture: As the number of transistors that it’s possible to cost-effectively squeeze onto a sliver of silicon continues to slow, what you build out of those transistors becomes increasingly critical.
Open source processors’ time in the sun: There is a burgeoning RISC-V movement. It’s likely a little-known fact to some of you, that a public domain instruction set for v2 and earlier versions of the Arm ISA exists. And both Sun (with OpenSPARC) and IBM (OpenPOWER) have also joined the open-source silicon movement.
The normalization of remote work (and the “Great Resignation’s” aftershocks): I suspect that, to at least a notable degree, we won’t ever completely return to the “way it was before.” In fact, I’d wager that having a taste of a work-from-home or “hybrid” employment lifestyle is one of the key factors behind the so-called “Great Resignation” that tech and broader media alike inform me is well underway.
The metaverse starts to stir: Perhaps we’ll look back at 2022 as the year when the crossing of the chasm started in earnest.
Autonomy slowly accelerates: 2021 was another year filled with fully autonomous car tests and premature “coming soon” pronouncements; 2022 will likely be the same.
Batteries get ever denser, ever more plentiful, and ever cheaper
Space travel becomes commonplace
Global semiconductor industry forecasts for 2022
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20211229VL205.html
“2021 is the year that everyone remembered that chip mattered,” said Wired Magazine. So far 2022 seems likely to be another fruitful year for the semiconductor industry.
World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) also has predicted that the global semiconductor market is projected to grow by 8.8 percent in 2022, to US$ 601 billion, driven by double-digit growth of the sensors and logic category. All regions and all product categories are expected to continue positive growth. Wafer foundry manufacturers sales likely to remain strong due to tight supply. 5G smartphone silicon content increase to drive demand for foundry service higher. Demand for digital transformation is here to stay, no sign of weakening for foundry service sales.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation over the past two years. Work from home, virtual conference, and remote learning have driven up the demand for cloud computing, laptops, and servers, and hence the sales growth of related semiconductor products. Demands for CPU, GPU, AI accelerator (including FPGA) foundry services will remain strong in 2022 because trends such as virtual conferences, live streaming, and large capex of data centers are likely to stay. Long-term demands for customized chips in IoT, 5G infrastructure, HPC, and EV applications, like ADAS, autonomous driving, V2X, in-Vehicle Infotainment, will provide robust growth momentum for chip foundry services.
Chip crunch is not ending in 2022, as the lead time of some electronic components is stretching into 2023. Meanwhile, the increasing adoption of RISC-V open standard instruction set architecture is an important trend that can not be ignored. RISC-V market will double its size in 2022, compared to 2021, as it is attracting small and medium-size chip designers and manufacturers, especially those in China. RISC-V designs are now being used by Qualcomm, Samsung, Google, Microchip, Nvidia, and more.
Taiwan’s chip industry emerges as a battlefront in US-China showdown
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2022/01/01/2003770517
The country dominates production of chips used in almost all civilian and military technologies. That leaves the US and Chinese economies reliant on plants that would be in the line of fire in an attack on Taiwan. The vulnerability is stoking alarm in Washington
40 prosenttia pienempiä latureita
https://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12981&via=n&datum=2021-12-20_14:53:12&mottagare=30929
The size of a standard mobile phone charger can be reduced by up to 40 percent when using GaN components or it can be designed to produce more power in the same size. GaN chargers are becoming the most popular charger technology for billions of devices, so it’s no wonder that European semiconductor giant STMicroelectronics is also excited about them.
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Samsung päivitti 5G-kansansuosikkinsa
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/13324-samsung-paeivitti-5g-kansansuosikkinsa
Esimerkiksi Elisan helmikuun myydyimpien älypuhelimien listalla Samsungin Galaxy A12 -malli oli kärjessä, mutta kyse on edullisesta alle 200 euron LTE-puhelimesta. Listan kakkos- ja kolmospaikkaa miehittivät keskihintaluokan 5G-tuella varustetut A52s ja A32. Nyt valmistaja on päivittänyt nämä kansansuosikkinsa uusiin.
Uutuudet ovat Galaxy A53 5G- ja Galaxy A33 5G -mallit. Uusissa A-sarjalaisissa on täysin uusi prosessori, Galaxy-tekoälykamera, suuri näyttö ja jopa kahden päivän akunkesto. Molempiin puhelinmalleihin kuuluvat myös Samsungin One UI- ja Android OS -päivitystuet sekä jatkuvat tietoturvapäivitykset.
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Mullistava BaM-muisti: GPU lukee suoraan SSD-levyä
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/13323-mullistava-bam-muisti-gpu-lukee-suoraan-ssd-levyae
Grafiikkaprosessori suoriutuu yleiskäyttöistä CPU-piiriä paremmin monesta muustakin tehtävästä kuin grafiikan piirtämisestä ruudulle. Tällä hetkellä GPU:n suorituskykyä kuitenkin rajoittaa se, että kaikki data pitää noutaa SSD-levyltä CPU-prosessorin kautta. Nvidian ja IBM:n yhdessä kehittämä uusi arkkitehtuuri lupaa mullistaa koko kuvion.
Kyse on BaM-tekniikasta (Big Accelerator Memory). Yleisellä tasolla kyse on siitä, että CPU:n tilalle tulee GPU:n ohjelmistossa pyörivä eräänlainen virtuaalinen välimuisti, jonka avulla datan virtuaalista osoitetta SSD-levyllä ei tarvitse kääntää CPU:lla.
Sinällään yksinkertaisen edut ovat ilmeiset. Kun CPU:n kautta tulkittavat ja käännettävät muistiosoitteet voidaan hakea fyysisen PCIe-väylän kaistanleveyden rajoittamina, BaM-ratkaisussa nopeutta rajoittaa vain GPU:n väylä. Esimerkiksi PCIe4-väylän kaistanleveys on vain kaksi prosenttia Nvidian vuoden 2020 A100-grafiikkaprosessorin väylän nopeudesta. Suorituskyky on näin käytännössä kaksi kertaluokkaa parempi kuin perinteisessä CPU-pohjaisessa arkkitehtuurissa.
Microsoftilla on itse asiassa tähän oma ratkaisunsa, jota se kutsuu DirectStorageksi. Kyse on valmistajakohtaisesta sovelluksen ohjelmointirajapinnasta. BaM tekee periaatteessa saman ilman Microsoftin omaa rajapintaa.
BaM: A Case for Enabling Fine-grain High
Throughput GPU-Orchestrated Access to Storage
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.04910.pdf
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Katie Palmer / STAT:
Doctors often use Google Translate to talk with non-English speaking patients, but researchers say inaccurate results are common and can lead to serious errors
Doctors often turn to Google Translate to talk to patients. They want a better option
https://www.statnews.com/2022/03/16/google-translate-health-care-english/
The patient had just undergone a cesarean section, and now was struggling to put words to her pain in her native Taiwanese. The physician making rounds, Natasha Mehandru, was used to communicating with patients who didn’t speak English as a first language at her county hospital in Phoenix. But this time, calling in an interpreter by phone wasn’t working.
“The service was not really good,” she said — and soon, she realized the patient and the interpreter weren’t even speaking the same dialect. “It was difficult to communicate, even with the interpreter.”
So Mehandru turned to a familiar tool: Google Translate. Typing translations back and forth — Taiwanese to English, English to Taiwanese — she and the patient slowly came to an understanding with the help of the interpreter still on the line. Her pain wasn’t from the C-section, in her abdomen, but from a separate and long-standing issue, lower in her body. “That changed how I managed her that day,” said Mehandru, who was at the time a gynecological resident and is now a surgeon at Kaiser San Jose Medical Center. With the help of the machine translation tool, “we changed around medications, and then over the course of a couple days she ended up feeling better.”
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Open-source developers are burning out, quitting, and even sabotaging their own projects — and it’s putting the entire internet at risk
https://www.businessinsider.com/open-source-developers-burnout-low-pay-internet-2022-3
Every day, Blaine Bublitz spends hours sifting through emails from users of Gulp.js, an open-source software project he volunteers to maintain that’s used by organizations like Microsoft and NASA.
These emails typically push for updates and fixes to the platforms, piling onto his never-ending to-do list. And while some users are friendly, many are quick to press him on what’s taking so long. The demands of these messages wreck his mood and, at one point, even led him to “disappear” for six months and stop working on the project altogether.
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Litho Machine Maker Could Be Major Chip Bottleneck Until 2024
By Francisco Pires published 1 day ago
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/asml-semiconductor-bottleneck
There’s a risk some factories will remain shells after their completion.
Semiconductor manufacturers are bound to end up against a materials shortage even as they pour billions of dollars into capacity expansions, but it turns out that’s not the only issue companies and consumers have to worry about. As reported by the Financial Times, Dutch-based ASML is likely to become an industry’s bottleneck over the next two years as the manufacturer of specialty equipment struggles to increase the output of its lithography machines.
Speaking to FT, ASML chief executive Peter Wennick warned that despite best efforts in scaling the company’s manufacturing capacity, increases in yearly output for ASML’s lithography machines will fall behind the requirements put forward by chipmakers. In fact, Wennick estimated that the company would have to improve its output to the tune of 50% additional machines delivered each year in order to keep up with demand – a need that’s nearly impossible to satisfy considering supply-chain and device complexity.
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Avnet survey shows chip shortage impacts most designs, increases engineers workload
https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/03/20/avnet-survey-shows-chip-shortage-impacts-most-designs-increases-engineers-workload/
Avnet has just released a survey of global engineers asking them how they were coping with the global chip shortage, longer lead times, and the impact on product design. Note that most of the 530 respondents are from EMEA (56%), and the US (31%), while only 10% are in Asia, and 2% are in Japan (I understand Asia means ex-Japan here), so it may not perfectly reflect the global situation, but the results are interesting nonetheless.
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Samuel Stolton / Politico:
EU lawmakers provisionally agree on the DMA, which mandates messaging service interoperability, limits bundling services, prohibits self-preferencing, and more — The European Union today adopted landmark rules clamping down on anti-competitive abuses by the world’s largest technology platforms …
EU negotiators agree new rules to rein in tech giants
https://www.politico.eu/article/eus-digital-markets-act-adopted/
‘The Digital Markets Act puts an end to the ever-increasing dominance of Big Tech companies,’ says lead MEP.
EU officials have agreed on landmark rules clamping down on anti-competitive abuses by the world’s largest technology platforms, in a move that will set the standard for leveling the playing field across global digital markets.
In an agreement brokered Thursday evening, negotiators from the European Parliament and the Council reached a political agreement on the Digital Markets Act, which establishes a series of prohibitions and obligations for companies including Google, Meta, Apple and Amazon, and a number of smaller platforms. It is likely to include accommodation platform Booking and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.
Included in the rules’ scope will be platforms with a market capitalization of €75 billion or turnover in the European Economic Area equal to or above €7.5 billion
“The Digital Markets Act puts an end to the ever-increasing dominance of Big Tech companies,” lead MEP Andreas Schwab said. “From now on, Big Tech companies must show that they also allow for fair competition on the internet.”
“The new rules will help enforce that basic principle. The time of long antitrust cases is over during which the authorities were lagging behind the big tech companies. Europe is thus ensuring more competition, more innovation and more choice for users.”
The new rules for so-called gatekeeper platforms, derived from years of antitrust enforcement in the digital economy, include restrictions on combining personal data from different sources, mandates to allow users to install apps from third-party platforms, prohibitions on bundling services, and a prohibition on self-preferencing practices.
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Bloomberg:
Sources: SoftBank is seeking a valuation of at least $60B for Arm when the company goes public, higher than the $40B that a sale to Nvidia would have fetched — SoftBank Group Corp. is seeking a valuation of at least $60 billion for Arm Ltd. when the business goes public …
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-24/softbank-is-said-to-be-seeking-at-least-60-billion-in-arm-ipo
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Reuters:
Toshiba shareholders reject two competing proposals, one by management to spin off its devices unit and another by activist investors to seek buyout offers
https://www.reuters.com/business/toshiba-shareholders-vote-down-both-spin-off-plan-call-seek-buyout-offers-2022-03-24/
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Europe says yes to messaging interoperability as it agrees major new regime for big tech
https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/24/dma-political-agreement/?tpcc=tcplusfacebook
Late Thursday the European Union secured agreement on the detail of a major competition reform that will see the most powerful, intermediating tech platforms subject to a set of up-front rules on how they can and cannot operate — with the threat of fines of up to 10% of global annual turnover should they breach requirements (or even 20% for repeat violations).
In three-way discussions between the European Council, parliament and Commission, which ran for around eight hours today, it was finally agreed that the Digital Markets Act (DMA) will apply to large companies providing “core platform services” — such as social networks or search engines — which have a market capitalisation of at least €75 billion or an annual turnover of €7.5 billion.
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Global Semiconductor Sales Increase 26.8% Year-to-Year in January
https://www.semiconductors.org/global-semiconductor-sales-increase-26-8-year-to-year-in-january/
Sales into the Americas increase 40.2% year-to-year to lead all regional markets
WASHINGTON—March 3, 2022—The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced global semiconductor industry sales were $50.7 billion in the month of January 2022, an increase of 26.8% over the January 2021 total of $40.0 billion and 0.2% less than the December 2021 total of $50.9 billion. Monthly sales are compiled by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization and represent a three-month moving average. SIA represents 99% of the U.S. semiconductor industry by revenue and nearly two-thirds of non-U.S. chip firms.
“Following record sales and units shipped in 2021, global semiconductor sales remained strong at the beginning of 2022, reaching the second-highest-ever monthly total in January,” said John Neuffer, SIA president and CEO. “Global sales in January increased by more than 20% for the tenth consecutive month on a year-to-year basis, and sales into the Americas increased by 40.2% year-to-year in January to lead all regional markets.”
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Intel Announces Initial Investment of Over €33 Billion for R&D and Manufacturing in EU
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/eu-news-2022-release.html#gs.ukojxv
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 15, 2022 – Intel today announced the first phase of its plans to invest as much as 80 billion euros in the European Union over the next decade along the entire semiconductor value chain – from research and development (R&D) to manufacturing to state-of-the art packaging technologies. Today’s announcement includes plans to invest an initial 17 billion euros into a leading-edge semiconductor fab mega-site in Germany, to create a new R&D and design hub in France, and to invest in R&D, manufacturing and foundry services in Ireland, Italy, Poland and Spain. With this landmark investment, Intel plans to bring its most advanced technology to Europe, creating a next-generation European chip ecosystem and addressing the need for a more balanced and resilient supply chain.
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Kiinteä elektrolyytti ratkaisee sähköauton suurimman ongelman
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/13347-kiinteae-elektrolyytti-ratkaisee-saehkoeauton-suurimman-ongelman
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Travel tech company Sabre Corp. signed a deal with Google Cloud to spend $2 billion over the next 10 years—but since signing, it has spent less than $10 million so far. It’s not the only company that’s paid less money than Google projected.
Why a $2 Billion Google Cloud Contract Has Generated Only $10 Million in Revenue So Far
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-a-2-billion-google-cloud-contract-has-generated-only-10-million-in-revenue-so-far?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpm&utm_campaign=6261198914756_6269272277356&utm_content=6269272281556&fbclid=IwAR225Hhv4wwMYn2p69SDQYtqfuqxAK1WxFa4vu7FUao4WYaBfgO9nRdSo-I
Sabre Corp. CEO Sean Menke says his company’s decadelong agreement with Google Cloud, announced January 2020, is the key to finally weaning the 61-year-old provider of travel-booking technology off mainframe computers. Judging from how Menke has described Sabre’s work with Google Cloud during recent earnings calls with stock analysts, those plans appear to be on track.
But as of the middle of this year, or about 18 months into the Google Cloud deal, Sabre had spent less than $10 million from its agreement to pay approximately $2 billion over 10 years
Sabre isn’t the only spending straggler at Google Cloud, which generated $13 billion in revenue last year. Salesforce, Mayo Clinic and biotechnology startup Tempus Labs also inked long-term agreements with Google Cloud, each worth between tens of millions of dollars and hundreds of millions of dollars, but they have paid less money for services than Google had projected
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European lawmakers have provisionally agreed upon a new law that would force Apple to allow user access to third-party app stores and permit the sideloading of apps on iPhones and iPads, among other sweeping changes designed to make the digital sector fairer and more competitive.
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/03/25/eu-provisionally-agrees-dma-law-apple-app-store/
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Europe says yes to messaging interoperability as it agrees major new regime for big tech
https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/24/dma-political-agreement/
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TI Takes on EMI by Integrating Passives Inside the Package
March 24, 2022
The 36-V, 3-A synchronous step-down converters stand out from others on the market by combining a pair of input bypass capacitors with a single boot capacitor in the same 2.6- × 2.6-mm QFN package.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/power-management/article/21237065/electronic-design-ti-takes-on-emi-by-integrating-passives-inside-the-package?utm_source=EG+ED+Analog+%26+Power+Source&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS220322028&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.ident%5Bpull%5D=omeda%7C7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
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Discover the latest trends and applications enabled by Wi-Fi 6
March 18, 2022
New Quectel whitepaper explains why Wi-Fi 6, LTE-M and 5G are complementary technologies powering hyper-connected use cases.
https://www.mwrf.com/learning-resources/white-paper/whitepaper/21236538/discover-the-latest-trends-and-applications-enabled-by-wifi-6?utm_source=RF+MWRF+Today&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS220318064&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.ident%5Bpull%5D=omeda%7C7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
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APEC 2022
Check out what is new at this year’s show.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/magazine/51165?utm_source=EG+ED+Auto+Electronics&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS220314014&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.ident%5Bpull%5D=omeda%7C7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
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Gene Munster / Loup:
Apple heavily relies on China for manufacturing, but its plan to invest $430B in the US over five years is a promising sign of ramped up diversification — The global supply chain will likely change rapidly over the next decade, shifting away from China. Apple saw it coming in 2018 …
Apple’s Been Preparing for the New World Order
https://loupfunds.com/apples-been-preparing-for-the-new-world-order/
The global supply chain will likely change rapidly over the next decade, shifting away from China. Apple saw it coming in 2018 and will be aggressively investing a projected $430B in US tech infrastructure over the next five years, along with investing to a lesser extent in Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. While Apple is in a favorable position to navigate the shift long-term, I expect investor anxiety around the topic to ebb and flow in the years to come. In the end, I believe Apple will remain on top given the company is in a unique position with its financial resources and expertise to diversify.
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Applen mobiiliprosessorit omaa luokkaansa
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/13354-applen-mobiiliprosessorit-omaa-luokkaansa
Sen jälkeen, kun Huawein Kirin-prosessorit käytännössä katosivat markkinoilta, Android-puhelinten suoritinmarkkinat ovat Qualcommin, Samsungin ja Mediatekin hallussa. Kiinalaisessa testissä Mediatekin uusin piiri yllätti olemalla Qualcommin uusinta tehokkaampi. Kun kisaan otetaan mukaan Applen mobiiliprosessorit, ne valtaavat testin kärkipään suvereenisti.
Geekwanin arvostelussa Apple iPad Pron M1-piiri oli selkeästi ykkönen ennen niin ikään iPista löytyvää A12Z-prosessoria. Ensimmäinen iPhone-prosessori on kolmannella sijalla oleva A12X. Applen piirien tehosta kertoo se, että vertailun neljäs on jo kolmen vuoden ikäinen A12Z.
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Nvidia Streamline Aims to Simplify Developer Support for All Upscaling Algorithms
By Mark Tyson published 4 days ago
Streamline is an open-source framework and Intel is already on board.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-streamline-aims-to-simplify-developer-support-for-upscaling-algorithms
As part of its series of revelations and announcements at GDC 2022, the green team today revealed Nvidia Streamline. In brief, this is a framework that Nvidia has devised to ease the integration of super-resolution technologies into games. Thankfully, Streamline is both open-source and can accommodate super-resolution technologies from diverse hardware and game engine vendors. Intel is already on board, but we have no word from AMD on its plans.
The rate at which super-resolution technologies are advancing and proliferating may be mind boggling for users. If you feel that way, share a little empathy with game developers who may have to dance around coding and recoding their games to work smoothly and be optimized for the likes of DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling), NIS (Nvidia Image Scaling), FSR (AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution), XeSS (Intel’s Xe Super Sampling), potential updates to these
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New Platform Lets GPUs and FPGAs Use Intel Optane Memory Modules
By Anton Shilov published 4 days ago
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/new-platform-lets-gpus-fpgas-use-intel-optane-memory-modules
Liqid, MemVerge and Intel team up for new platform with multi-tier memory.
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https://sudosecurity.org/blog/introduction-to-the-bsd-world/
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Intel releases the ATX 3.0 power supply spec
By Chris Szewczyk published 4 days ago
Hold off on buying that new PSU if you can.
https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-releases-the-atx-30-power-supply-spec/
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Rivals Nvidia and Intel Might Join Forces To End Chip Shortage
Nvidia and Intel may come together to manufacture more chips as shortages persist
https://www.thestreet.com/technology/rivals-nvidia-and-intel-might-join-forces-to-end-chip-shortage
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/13368-seuraavan-sukupolven-ssd-tallennus-saa-standardin
Samsung ja Western Digital allekirjoittaneet aiesopimuksen seuraavan sukupolven SSD-tallennustekniikan standardoinnista. Hankkeen tarkoituksena on edittää ZNS- teli Zoned Storage -tekniikan käyttöönottoa markkinoilla.
ZNS tulee sanoista Zoned Namespace, mikä kääntynee sektoroiduksi nimitilaksi. Kyse on SSD-levyn tiedostojärjestelmän parannuksesta, joka jakaa SSD-levyn kapasiteetin alueiksi tai sektoreiksi, ja jokainen sektori kirjoitetaan sarjamuotoisesti. Sektori vastaa flash-muistin lohkojen kokoa ja kapasiteetti fyysisen tallennuslaitteen kokoa.
Tämän ansiosta SSD-levy voi kirjoittaa täysiä lohkoja dataa. Näin päästään eroon osiollisista lohkojen päivittämisistä ja esimerkiksi ”roskien keruusta” eli tarpeettomien bittien poistamisesta. ZNS:ää käytetään jo Linux-pohjaisissa palvelimissa ja siitä on tulossa osa tulevaa uutta NVMe-ohjainmääritystä.
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Reimagining Manufacturing for 2022 and Beyond
March 21, 2022
John McEleney of Onshape (PTC) shares his predictions for engineers in 2022, including the ways IIoT and SaaS are revolutionizing design.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/industrial-automation/article/21235822/ptc-reimagining-manufacturing-for-2022-and-beyond?utm_source=EG+ED+Connected+Solutions&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS220325012&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.ident%5Bpull%5D=omeda%7C7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
What you’ll learn:
Manufacturing predictions for 2022.
How SaaS and IIoT are transforming product design and manufacturing.
How the pandemic accelerated digital adoption in design.
As COVID-19 continues to disrupt businesses and organizations across the globe, the industrial world has been forced to tackle and address new challenges—leading to both opportunities and pitfalls. We’ve seen technology adoption surge as new innovations emerge. What felt like overnight, teams came together to create life-saving products and design valuable solutions to help us all manage through a new environment filled with rapid change and uncertainty.
However, while some sectors prospered, others have struggled and continue to face new and greater obstacles. The global supply chain, for instance, has experienced disruption like never before, resulting in shortages of many consumer products, from toilet paper to silicon chips.
Now, in the second year of a global pandemic, we’re at a tipping point when it comes to product design and innovation. We must reimagine our processes to remain agile, resilient, and flexible. We now live in a world where instant gratification is an expectation and no longer a nice-to-have. But how can technology keep up? Here’s a view of the ways companies will evolve, stay resilient, and adopt new technologies to create a better future.
Product Development is Rapidly Evolving
Since the onset of COVID-19, cloud-native and digital-first employees have been climbing the ranks across workforces, creating a suite of leadership that has technology adoption as a top priority. In fact, Gartner forecastsspending on public cloud will grow 21.7% in 2022, and will exceed 45% of all enterprise spending by 2026.
More and more, we’re seeing remote work and online collaboration amongst teams remain the norm. With tools like Zoom and Slack to communicate with coworkers and Onshape to design products in real-time, these tools have now been integrated into company processes and will remain part of their arsenal in a post-pandemic world.
Combating Today’s Supply-Chain Crisis
Supply chains across the globe continue to operate asynchronously, facing major disruptions around every corner. The initial ramping down of production and quick reversal of increased demand resulted in an overwhelmed system spurred by bottlenecks.
California, where goods worth $24 billion were floating in the local seaports, demonstrated the vulnerability and gaps in our supply chain. And to address the backlog, the ports placed skyrocketing fees on shipping carriers.
While the congestion will eventually subside and the fees will decrease with improved operations and near-shoring, we can expect the disruption to continue into 2022. We’ll also see many companies shift from “just-in-time” strategies of efficiency to “just-in-case” strategies, building up inventory to accommodate disruptions and better prepare for the future unknowns.
To reimagine and improve the manufacturing process for today’s landscape, companies must increase their investments in innovative, automation technologies like the cloud, industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and AI. This, coupled with the government’s renewed focus on infrastructure, will help get economies of scale at a faster pace and lower cost of production.
Companies also should consider identifying and working with regional suppliers instead of offshoring.
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Although EUV is not ventage the earlier DUV machines go back to 1980′s, who even knew AMSL made 200M$ silicon chip machines. Very interesting video of the latest chip EUV technology how tin is melted at high speed blasted by hot laser beam to create EUV light waves onto photo resist coated silicon wafers. Find it odd no tubes AKA valves can create EUV 3nm wavelength seems questionable.
ASML is the only company making the $200 million machines needed to print every advanced microchip. Here’s an inside look
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/asml-is-the-only-company-making-the-200-million-machines-needed-to-print-every-advanced-microchip-here-s-an-inside-look/ar-AAVpOOj?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=640f57d7a26448179bcd32fa44e92780
In the southern Dutch town of Veldhoven, near the border with Belgium, sits the only factory capable of assembling a revolutionary machine that’s relied upon by the world’s biggest chipmakers.
EUV lithography is the most expensive step in making the advanced microchips that power data centers, cars and iPhones. The machines are made by only one company: Advanced Semiconductor Materials Lithography.
“ASML has a monopoly on the fabrication of EUV lithography machines, the most advanced type of lithography equipment that’s needed to make every single advanced processor chip that we use today,” said Chris Miller, assistant professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. “The machines that they produce, each one of them is among the most complicated devices ever made.”
EUV stands for extreme ultraviolet, an incredibly short wavelength of light that ASML generates in large quantities to print small, complex designs on microchips. The EUV light is created with tiny explosions of molten tin happening at extreme speeds and then bounced off unique Zeiss mirrors that ASML says are the flattest surface in the world. A small percentage of the EUV light particles reach the surface of a silicon wafer, where they print the minuscule designs that determine what each chip will do.
The company’s stock price has skyrocketed more than 340% since the end of 2018, making ASML more valuable than some of its top customers, such as Intel.
ASML CEO Peter Wennink said the company has been bringing down semiconductor prices since it was founded 38 years ago and will keep doing so “for the next couple of decades.”
Still, Wennink says the global chip shortage is “a Catch-22″ for ASML.
“We got a lot of messages from our suppliers that said, ‘Hey, we might be late in delivering our modules to you guys because we cannot get the chips.’ And we said, ‘If we cannot get the chips, we cannot make the machines to make more chips.’”
Wennink said ASML is still managing “but it’s a daily struggle.”
$200 million machines
ASML has sold a total of about 140 EUV systems in the past decade, each one now costing up to $200 million, according to Wennink. The price tag for its next machine, called High NA, will be more than $300 million.
Its EUV machine is “so expensive that most companies cannot afford it,” said Joanne Itow, managing director of manufacturing at Semico Research. “It certainly has eliminated a lot of players out of the market,” including chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries, which decided a few years ago to stop working on more-advanced chips because of the high cost, she said.
Today, ASML sells the machines to only five chipmakers. The biggest three — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Samsung and Intel — made up nearly 84% of its business in 2021. TSMC says that in 2019 it was the first to deliver high-volume chips made with EUV and that it has stayed in front ever since, with chip technology at least one node ahead of Samsung’s and Intel’s.
ASML’s dominance is a relatively new phenomenon. A decade ago, the company’s ability to research EUV was decided by major investments from Intel, Samsung and TSMC.
ASML started out as a subsidiary of Dutch electronics giant Philips in 1984. It launched its first machine for semiconductor lithography — which had been invented in a U.S. military lab in the 1950s — out of a leaky shed next to a Philips office building in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
China and a global supply chain
EUV machines are made up of several modules with hundreds of thousands of components, from nearly 800 global suppliers. Each module is built at one of ASML’s 60 locations around the world and then shipped to Veldhoven for assembly. After each assembled machine is tested, it’s disassembled for shipment to a chipmaker. The shipping requires 20 trucks and three fully loaded Boeing 747s.
One country ASML won’t ship its EUV technology to is China.
“Forty-two countries around the globe have agreed to put export control measures on it because it’s so critical,” Wennink said. “So it’s not our choice, it’s the choice of governments.”
ASML does deal with China in another capacity. The company refurbishes older lithography systems, called deep ultraviolet, or DUV, and sends many of those to the world’s most-populated country. Wennink said 96% of all machines ASML has ever sold are still working.
“There’s a lot of debate about whether selling additional DUV equipment to China is also a national security risk, by letting China increase its ability to manufacture close-to-cutting-edge semiconductors,”
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https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/replaceable-batteries-are-coming-back-to-phones-if-the-eu-gets-its-way/
https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2022/03/31/ekosuunnittelun-uudet-vaatimukset-kayttoon-tiedot-tuotepassiin/
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_2013
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A newly released Android app will turn your smartphone into an instrument for crowdsourced science. Leave it by your window each night with your satnav positioning turned on and your phone will record small variations in satellite signals, gathering data for machine learning analysis of meteorology and space weather patterns.
Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Navigation/Turn_your_phone_into_a_space_monitoring_tool
The CAMALIOT app, developed through ESA’s Navigation Innovation and Support Programme (NAVISP) with the support of the Agency’s GNSS Science Support Centre, is suitable for more than 50 models in the smartphone market which come equipped with dual frequency satnav receivers.
Collect data from satellites for scientific research in weather forecasting
https://www.camaliot.org/
The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is a set of satellites that orbit the Earth.
These GNSS satellites provide valuable information to many different location-based applications from the satnav in your car to flying a plane. But we can also use the data for scientific research.
We developed the CAMALIOT app to gather data from these satellites, taking advantage of new developments in mobile technology to collect and access the raw GNSS data from Android phones.
All the data are gathered by individuals like you. You don’t have to be a scientist, you just need to have access to an Andriod mobile phone with your GPS turned on.
In return, you are helping to build better weather forecasting models, and there is a chance to win prizes at the end of the campaign.
As the GNSS satellite signals are received in Earth, they are modified by the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere.
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Qualcommin seuraavassa ongelmia?
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/13376-qualcommin-seuraavassa-ongelmia
Qualcommin on määrä julkistaa seuraavan polven älypuhelinprosessorien lippulaivansa eli Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus kesäkuussa 2022. Uusimpien tietojen mukaan piiri on ongelmissa. Uusi Cortex-X2-ydin on tehokas, mutta kuluttaa odotettua enemmän virtaa. (kuva omalla) Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus on määrä julkaista kesäkuussa 2022 (kuva omalla)
Koreassa kerrottujen tietojen mukaan Samsungin 4 nanometroin prosessi olisi johtamassa siihen, että SD 8 Gen 1 Plus -piiri jouduttaisiin alikellottamaan. Tällöin suorituskyvyssä jäätäisiin aiemmin odotetusta.
Meeco-sivustolla kerrotaan, että Cortex-X2-ytimen tehonkulutus on odotettua suurempi erityisesti korkeammilla kellotaajuuksilla.
Mikäli uutuus jouduttaisiin alikellottamaan, Qualcommin piirillä ei tehtäisikään odotettua hyppäystä suorituskyvyssä. On yleisesti jo tiedossa, että Qualcommin odotetaan julkistavan Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus -version joskus kesäkuussa 2022. Suoritinta käyttäviä puhelimia lisi tulossa markkinoille sen jälkeen.
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Intel Invests $100 Million to Bolster Chip Research, Education in U.S.
March 28, 2022
To help build a pipeline of new electrical engineers and semiconductor technicians, Intel is investing $100 million in new education and research opportunities in the U.S.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/embedded-revolution/article/21236498/electronic-design-intel-invests-100-million-to-bolster-chip-research-education-in-us?utm_source=EG+ED+Analog+%26+Power+Source&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS220325009&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.ident%5Bpull%5D=omeda%7C7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
In a bid to regain its manufacturing prowess and compete in the contract chip-making business, Intel pledged to spend tens of billions of dollars to boost its production capacity, including at a sprawling new plant in Ohio. But it will need thousands of new engineers and other workers to staff the new factories.
To help build a pipeline of electrical engineers to design chips and technicians to run chip-making facilities, Intel is investing $100 million in new semiconductor education and research opportunities across the U.S.
The semiconductor giant plans to pour $50 million over the next 10 years into universities and other educational institutions throughout Ohio to train a new generation of workers to run its fabs and support research in the region. It is trying to nurture enough talent to help fill the expected 3,000 jobs at the massive manufacturing plant it intends to open in the state by 2025.
The U.S. is also pursuing ambitious plans to reinvigorate its semiconductor manufacturing might. Congress is on the verge of approving more than $50 billion in subsidies to persuade chip makers to build fabs in the U.S., lessening the sector’s dependence on chip foundries located on the other side of the world. The funds could also help companies fight future chip shortages that have choked the global economy since 2020.
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Power Density in 3D Power Packaging
March 31, 2022
Power-supply designers are more frequently being tasked to deliver higher power in the same footprint they had in their last design. 3D packaging will help make this goal a reality.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/power-management/whitepaper/21237686/electronic-design-power-density-in-3d-power-packaging?utm_source=EG+ED+Analog+%26+Power+Source&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS220325009&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.ident%5Bpull%5D=omeda%7C7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
What you’ll learn:
Various techniques for embedding 3D packaging to boost power density.
Different methods for cooling chips using 3D packaging.
New and emerging technologies for 3D packaging are being deployed at the printed-circuit-board (PCB) level. Power-density goals can be simplified with component integration into chip-scale packages that use stacking techniques, integration, transposers, and more. Advanced cooling methods will help make 3D packaging a viable option.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Umar Shakir / The Verge:
Samsung partners with iFixit to launch a self-repair program, offering parts, tools, and guides, coming this summer for the Galaxy S20, S21, and Tab S7 Plus — Coming this summer for the Galaxy S20, S21, and Tab S7 Plus — Today, Samsung announced a new self-repair program …
Samsung is working on a Galaxy self-repair program with iFixit
Coming this summer for the Galaxy S20, S21, and Tab S7 Plus
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/31/23004309/samsung-self-repair-service-program-ifixit-right-to-repair-galaxy?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Today, Samsung announced a new self-repair program that will give Galaxy customers access to parts, tools, and guides to repair their own devices. The program is in collaboration with popular repair guides and parts website iFixit, which has worked with manufacturers such as Motorola and Steam on similar ventures. The Galaxy S20 and S21 series phones and the Galaxy Tab S7 Plus are first in line for the spare parts — but not Samsung’s latest S22 family of phones.
“We are working with Samsung to improve their repair guide and DIY parts offerings,” iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens tells The Verge. The new program follows Apple’s recent change of heart in announcing a self-service program and Microsoft’s work with iFixit to manufacture Surface tools. “It is clear that manufacturers are recognizing that they need to embrace repair,” Wiens says.
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple seeks to diversify its memory chip suppliers, weighing Micron, Samsung, and Yangtze, after Japanese supplier Kioxia lost a batch to contamination — Apple Inc. is exploring new sources of the memory chips that go into iPhones, including its first Chinese producer of the critical component …
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-31/apple-said-to-weigh-more-memory-chip-suppliers-including-china
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Nikkei Asia:
TSMC chairman Mark Liu warns consumer demand for smartphones, PCs, and TVs is slowing down, especially in China, and components and materials costs are rising
TSMC says demand for smartphones, PCs starting to slow
Rising costs could be passed on to consumers, chairman of tech titan warns
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Supply-Chain/TSMC-says-demand-for-smartphones-PCs-starting-to-slow
Consumer electronics demand is showing signs of slowing amid geopolitical uncertainties and COVID-related lockdowns in China, the chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said on Wednesday.
The slowdown is emerging in areas “such as smartphones, PCs, and TVs, especially in China, the biggest consumer market,” TSMC Chairman Mark Liu said.
A key Apple supplier, TSMC is the world’s biggest contract chipmaker and a barometer of global electronics demand.
Liu also warned that the cost of components and materials are rising sharply, pushing up production costs for tech and chip companies.
“Such pressure could eventually be passed on to consumers,” Liu said on the sidelines of an industry event where he was speaking in his capacity as chair of the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association.
Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is the world’s second-largest chip economy by revenue, behind only the U.S.
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Apple to cut iPhone, AirPods output amid Ukraine war uncertainty
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Supply-Chain/Apple-to-cut-iPhone-AirPods-output-amid-Ukraine-war-uncertainty
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TSMC says up to 2% of revenue will go to green initiatives
Chipmaker sets sights on renewables as energy use accounts for 60% of emissions
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Supply-Chain/TSMC-says-up-to-2-of-revenue-will-go-to-green-initiatives
TAIPEI — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s biggest contract chipmaker and a key Apple supplier, said on Wednesday it will spend up to 2% of annual revenue on environmental, social and governance initiatives as part of its plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
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Taiwan chipmaker Winbond sees ‘long-term’ impact from Ukraine war
Apple supplier eyes EV, smart agriculture, cybersecurity as growth catalysts
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/Taiwan-chipmaker-Winbond-sees-long-term-impact-from-Ukraine-war
TAIPEI — The war in Ukraine is poised to have a “long-term” impact on the chip industry by compounding the mounting risks from inflation, according to Taiwanese memory chipmaker and key Apple and Samsung supplier Winbond Electronics.
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Financial Times:
Sources: Masayoshi Son told SoftBank leadership that the company needs to slow investments, amid the war in Ukraine, falling tech stocks, and China’s crackdown
SoftBank to slow investments following crash in tech holdings
https://www.ft.com/content/9ad348de-f9aa-4673-ac52-272e325e3884
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Replaceable Batteries Are Coming Back To Phones If The EU Gets Its Way
https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/replaceable-batteries-are-coming-back-to-phones-if-the-eu-gets-its-way/
Back in the day, just about everything that used a battery had a hatch or a hutch that you could open to pull it out and replace it if need be. Whether it was a radio, a cordless phone, or a cellphone, it was a cinch to swap out a battery.
These days, many devices hide their batteries, deep beneath tamper-proof stickers and warnings that state there are “no user serviceable components inside.” The EU wants to change all that, though, and has voted to mandate that everything from cellphones to e-bikes must have easily replaceable batteries, with the legislation coming into effect as soon as 2024.
Many devices, like this Philips Norelco 9700 shaver, feature in-built batteries. The company specifically advisers customers not to attempt “to open the product to
remove or replace the built-in rechargeable
battery.”
Many of our appliances, and particularly our phones, rely on rechargeable lithium batteries. Since they’re rechargeable, manufacturers decided we no longer needed to replace them, and started sealing them away inside devices where they were free from the meddling fingers of the unwashed masses.
Many reasons are commonly cited for this change in design ethos, which hit the market slowly and then all at once as smartphone manufacturers moved to premium sealed-up designs with more exotic materials. Some claim it’s to provide the customer with a cleaner, fuss-free user experience, while others cite the packaging and miniaturization benefits of a device with a permanently-installed battery. It also makes it easier to waterproof a product, a feature that has been a particularly difficult design challenge on the smartphone market.
However, such designs come with the drawback that if the battery does fail, the device becomes useless, and is often thrown away. While one can perform surgery on modern smartphones and other devices with dead batteries, it’s a process fraught with danger for the inexperienced and can lead to damage or destruction of the device itself. And just as importantly, how do you recycle the battery if you can’t remove it?
As part of the EU’s new battery regulations, all this is set to change. The text of these regulations is one that mandates that batteries be easily removable, replaceable, and recyclable in a wide range of devices. This includes smartphones and other typical consumer appliances, as well as batteries for “light means of transport” such as e-bikes and e-scooters.
By January 1, 2024, these devices must be designed such that batteries can be safely removed and replaced using “basic and commonly available tools” and “without causing damage to the appliance or batteries.” Manufacturers must also provide documentation for the removal and replacement procedure. This documentation must also be provided online for the duration of a product’s expected lifetime.
It’s a measure that could drastically change the design of all manner of technology for the EU market.
All kinds of appliances use integrated, hidden batteries these days – everything from top-tier smartphones to action cameras and electric shavers. All of these products would have to be redesigned to allow batteries to be removed and replaced easily.
New rules on batteries: MEPs want more environmental and social ambition
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220304IPR24805/new-rules-on-batteries-meps-want-more-environmental-and-social-ambition
Batteries to be more sustainable and easier to replace, including on smartphones
Due diligence standards across the entire value chain
More ambitious targets for waste management
Parliament is ready to negotiate with EU governments on the final shape of the new rules governing the entire battery product life cycle, from design to end-of-life.
During the debate on Wednesday, MEPs underlined the crucial role that batteries have in the transition to a circular and climate-neutral economy and for the EU’s competitiveness and strategic autonomy. The draft legislation was adopted on Thursday with 584 votes in favour, 67 against and 40 abstentions.
MEPs are in favour of overhauling the current legislation to take into account technological developments.
They propose stronger requirements on sustainability, performance and labelling, including the introduction of a new category of “batteries for ‘light means of transport’ (LMT)”, such as electric scooters and bikes, and rules on a carbon footprint declaration and label. By 2024, portable batteries in appliances, such as smartphones, and batteries for LMT must be designed so that consumers and independent operators can easily and safely remove them themselves, MEPs say.
According to the adopted position, industry should ensure that the battery value chain complies fully with human rights and due diligence obligations, thus addressing risks around the sourcing, processing and trading of raw materials, which are often concentrated in one or a few countries.
The report also sets minimum levels of recovered cobalt, lead, lithium and nickel from waste for reuse in new batteries and more stringent collection targets for portable batteries.
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Komponenttipula vie halvat älypuhelimet kaupoista
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/13381-komponenttipula-vie-halvat-aelypuhelimet-kaupoista
Gigantin myydyimpien puhelimien lista täyttyi maaliskuussa Samsungin keskihintaisista matkapuhelimista. Yhtiön mukaan maailmanlaajuisesta komponenttipulasta johtuva puhelimien rajoittunut saatavuus on vaikuttanut kuluttajien tuotevalintoihin ja jopa eri mallien elinkaareen. Tämän takia myös myydyimpien listalla näkyvät etupäässä keskihintaiset ja kalliimmat puhelinmallit.
Maaliskuun yllättäjä oli Nokia 5.4, joka nousi TOP 10 -listalle helmikuussa ja kasvatti maaliskuussa suosiotaan kolmen listasijoituksen verran. Nokian nousulle on kuitenkin syynsä. Kohtuuhintaiset ja tasavarmat älypuhelinmallit kasvattavat suosiotaan joka kuukausi. Ilmiön taustalla on myös edullisten peruspuhelimien markkinatilanne komponenttipulan vuoksi.
- Useita edullisempia matkapuhelinmalleja puuttuu markkinoilta kokonaan, minkä takia markkinoilla olevilla alle 200 euron puhelimilla, kuten Nokia 5.4:llä, on tällä hetkellä paljon kysyntää, kertoo Gigantin myyntipäällikkö Mikko Pesonen.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/13379-delliltae-maailman-pienin-tehotyoeasema
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Broken supply chains have prompted companies to redesign products. The #chipshortage doesn’t just mean stuff is taking longer to get made. It’s changing the face of tech.
5 Ways the Chip Shortage is Rewiring Tech Broken supply chains prompt companies to redesign products
https://spectrum.ieee.org/chip-shortage-rewiring-tech?utm_campaign=RebelMouse&socialux=facebook&share_id=6984945&utm_medium=social&utm_content=IEEE+Spectrum&utm_source=facebook
The global chip shortage’s effect on current products is clear in just about every consumer market in the developed world, reflected in half-empty car dealerships and shuttered manufacturing lines. COVID gets a lot of the blame—and it sure didn’t help—but the fact is, the proliferation of gadgets in everyday life had been a slow-moving train that was long on the track to disrupting the semiconductor supply/demand balance.
The end, unfortunately, is not near.
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The chip challenge: Keeping Western semiconductors out of Russian weapons
https://lm.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Ftechnology%2Fchip-challenge-keeping-western-semiconductors-out-russian-weapons-2022-04-01%2F&h=AT0zrunr8ZtkrSSM-a006aA44VKTMUCNXEZSP4-ZESmdJ8T2DtoyMrTEExyjL3QrsR6lkW1Q_q96OwYVtur28NQA-6WG-wd3zn6d0iS_xT446iYzbLzMa2UJwfW7hyUSeh2mnsXheEKDNKwT9g
When Silicon Valley chipmaker Marvell learned that one of its chips was found in a Russian surveillance drone recovered in 2016, it set out to investigate how that came to be.
The chip, which costs less than $2, was shipped in 2009 to a distributor in Asia, which sold it to another broker in Asia, which later went out of business.
Years later, it reappeared in the drone recovered in Lithuania.
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Mediatek on ensimmäistä kertaa suurin
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/13390-mediatek-on-ensimmaeistae-kertaa-suurin
Qualcommin liikevaihto älypuhelinten sovellusprosessoreita oli edelleen suurin, mutta yksiköissä mitattuna taiwanilainen Mediatek nousi ensimmäistä kertaa suurimmaksi. Strategy Analyticsin mukaan Mediatek myi viime vuonna yli 75 miljoonaa piiriä enemmän kuin Qualcomm.
Kaikkiaan puhelinten sovellusprosessoreja myytiin viime vuonna 30,8 miljardilla dollarilla. Qualcommin osuus kakusta oli 37,7 prosenttia. Toisena oli Mediatek 26,3 prosentilla ja Apple kolmantena tasan 26 prosentilla.
Samsungin osuus kokonaisliikevaihdosta pieneni 6,6 prosenttiin. Huawein HiSilicon käytännössä katosi markkinoilta, sillä markkinaosuus oli enää 0,8 prosenttia. Sen edellä on kiinalainen Unisoc eli entinen Spreadrum 2,5 prosentin markkinaosuudella.
Strategy Analyticsin mukaan 5G-puhelimiin tarkoitettujen sovellusprosessorien toimitukset kasvoivat viime vuonna 84 prosenttia. Kaikista prosessoreista 5G-laitteisiin meni 46 prosenttia.